Analysis: University of Florida business school ranked nation’s 25th best

University of Florida's Warrington Business School ranked 25th among U.S. colleges offering master of business administration programs, according to a new study by U.S. News that examined 367 schools.

The Gainesville school has an annual in-state tuition rate for full-time students of $12,737 and an enrollment of 95 full-time students.

U.S. News ended up ranking only 131 schools out of the 367. The ranked schools provided adequate data on their MBA programs for the news publisher to calculate the results, which are based on a weighted average of indicators such as test scores, recruiter assessments, acceptance rates and student grade-point averages.

All the schools examined are accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business International.

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Where Are the Nation’s Best Business Schools?

Rank

School

Annual Full-time Tuition (in State)

Enrollment (full time)

1

University of Pennsylvania (Wharton) Philadelphia, PA

$72,300

1,742

2

Stanford University Stanford, CA

$70,590

855

3 (tie)

Harvard University Boston, MA

$73,440

1,873

3 (tie)

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Sloan) Cambridge, MA

$74,200

813

3 (tie)

University of Chicago (Booth) Chicago, IL

$72,000

1,179

6 (tie)

Columbia University New York, NY

$74,400

1,297

6 (tie)

Northwestern University (Kellogg) Evanston, IL

$71,544

1,304

7 (tie)

University of California--Berkeley (Haas) Berkeley, CA

$60,987

590

9

Yale University New Haven, CT

$69,500

723

10 (tie)

Duke University (Fuqua) Durham, NC

$68,200

875

10 (tie)

University of Michigan--Ann Arbor (Ross) Ann Arbor, MI

$63,646

832

12 (tie)

Dartmouth College (Tuck) Hanover, NH

$72,150

576

12 (tie)

New York University (Stern) New York, NY

$71,676

772

12 (tie)

University of Virginia (Darden) Charlottesville, VA

$62,464

660

15

Cornell University (Johnson) Ithaca, NY

$66,290

573

16

University of California--Los Angeles (Anderson) Los Angeles, CA

$59,866

723

17 (tie)

Carnegie Mellon University (Tepper) Pittsburgh, PA

$65,000

465

17 (tie)

University of Southern California (Marshall) Los Angeles, CA

$63,096

449

19 (tie)

University of North Carolina--Chapel Hill (Kenan-Flagler) Chapel Hill, NC